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Example sentences for: deter

How can you use “deter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

One way to deter them is to break their arms with a baseball bat.
By making Starr look like an obsessed Ahab, Clinton and "First Spear Carrier" James Carville (Gigot) hope to taint the investigation and deter Congress from impeaching the president with the independent counsel's wiggy evidence.
Border Patrol agents were still using manual typewriters; inspectors at ports of entry were using a paper watchlist; the asylum and other benefits systems did not effectively deter fraudulent applicants.
But I doubt that will deter some legitimately interested, sympathetic, altruistic, caring people from trying to get inside other people's heads and hearts, in order to share their pain.
Efforts to detect and deter fraud and abuse due to these conflicts, he said, “will be likely to be undermined as long as those charged with detecting fraud and abuse, like the [Pennsylvania] Inspector General, are appointed by politicians who are themselves beholden to the drug industry.